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I don’t understand those comments. I’ve been using sway for years, i3 before that and I’ve been using xdg-open since forever to open any file in the default app
by nrabulinski 2y ago
I don’t understand those comments. I’ve been using sway for years, i3 before that and I’ve been using xdg-open since forever to open any file in the default application and I never felt it was confusing or I that I needed to replace it with something else. What am I missing?
- dmytrokow 2y agoYou are missing a convenience of a desktop environment ;-) JK, i3 user here as well. The logic of xdg-open is straightforward. But once it's invoked from within a major DE, its behavior is sometimes not so obvious as it tries to delegate to a bunch of other tools.